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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a letter to friends, what does Maria say she noticed while driving up the coast from Los Angeles to Seattle?
(a) How vast the ocean is.
(b) How quiet and withdrawn the children were.
(c) How pale Georg looked.
(d) How crowded the roads were.

2. What does the family discover living under their sink in their Vermont home?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A skunk.

3. After Maria insists on another audition with Columbia Concerts, what happens?
(a) The executives walk out before the family finishes.
(b) The family is escorted out and told to never return.
(c) The family is invited to yet another audition.
(d) The executives are more impressed the second time around.

4. Maria points out that at her camp, folks who start out with Mary Had A Little Lamb soon can play:
(a) Folk tunes.
(b) Country melodies.
(c) Bach.
(d) Chopin.

5. When first visiting Vermont, what does the family like about the state?
(a) Its unique state government.
(b) The huge number of Austrians they find in Vermont.
(c) Its natural beauty, including swimming holes, woods, and pastures.
(d) The hard-working people and the thriving maple syrup industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maria says that after short weeks of practice:

2. After they've paid off debts, what does the family purchase to help them travel to their concerts and, at the same time, save money?

3. Wagner originally plans forty concerts for the family, but because of the war, he can book only how many?

4. When the family entertains troops at a former Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp turned Army camp, what do Georg and Maria realize?

5. In an effort to conserve gas and help the war effort, the von Trapps forgo traveling by car and instead travel by:

Short Essay Questions

1. After Georg dies, where is he buried?

2. After the von Trapps buy their Vermont house, but before they actually move in, what do the older sons, Werner and Rupert, tell the family?

3. What does Maria say about using the recorder as a learning instrument at music camp?

4. In the last chapter, what does Maria attribute to her full recovery?

5. Why does the family decide to buy a rundown farm in Vermont?

6. How does Maria feel the family is contributing to the war effort?

7. When the family first visits Vermont, what is it about the state that they like?

8. What does the family name their Vermont home, and why?

9. In between their concert performances in America, the von Trapps' bank account balance dwindles to fifty dollars. What do they do to raise money and make ends meet until their next concert?

10. What is Maria surprised to find when she opens a copy of Life Magazine after the von Trapps have been in Vermont a while?

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